Saturday, February 27, 2010

Garden Secrets

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Supplies1 tube of choice - I used to beautiful artwork of Tom Fleming hereFont of Choice - I used Future is Back hereMonti Circular Mask here“Down at the Bottom of the Garden” is a PTU scrap kit created by Athena of Athena Designs and can be purchased at Scraps with Attitude. You can visit Athena’s blog here.Thank you so much Athena for such a beautiful kit!

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

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Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Frame 3 as a new layer.Click inside with your Magic Wand.Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.New Raster layer below the frame.Flood fill with a gradient of choice.Deselect.

Highlight your white background.New Raster layer.Select AllCopy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.Deselect.Copy and paste El 17 as a new layer above the paper. Lower the Opacity to about 31Copy and paste El 49 as a new layer above the ladder - see my tag for position.Merge Visible the paper, ladder, and rainbow.Apply the mask.Merge Group.

Copy and paste El 68 as a new layer.Move up on your canvas so that it looks like a light shining over the frame.Move it just above your mask layer in your layers pallet.Highlight your mask layer.Select All/Float/DefloatSelections/Modify/FeatherNumber of Pixels:43OKSelections/InvertHighlight El 68 layer and tap your delete key until you have a nice feathered look.Deselect.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.Give it an inner bevel:

Resize all layers 80%.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.I’d love to see your results and show it off in my gallery.Email me!Hugs,Bev

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